Sleep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHIIJ KLMNOP QBRSBB| Godhead's lip hangs | A |
| When our pulses have no golden tremors | B |
| And his whips are flicked by mice | C |
| And all star amorous things | D |
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| Drops drops of shivering quiet | E |
| Filter under my lids | F |
| Now only am I powerful | G |
| What though the cunning gods outwit us here | H |
| In daytime and in playtime | I |
| Surely they feel the gyres we lay on them | I |
| In our sleep | J |
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| subtle gods lying hidden | K |
| gods with your oblique eyes | L |
| Your elbows in the dawn and wrists | M |
| Bright with the afternoon | N |
| o you not shake when a mortal slides | O |
| Into your own unvexed peace | P |
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| When a moving stillness breaks over your knees | Q |
| An emanation of piled eons' pressures | B |
| From our bodies flat and straight | R |
| And your limbs are locked | S |
| Futilely gods' | B |
| And shut your sinister essences | B |
Isaac Rosenberg
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